Happy’s Place (NBC): Promo (HD) (Reba McEntire comedy series)

Here's a promo for the upcoming new NBC series, Happy’s Place. I'm really looking forward to this show, especially since Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman will be working together again like they did when they were co-stars on Reba. 😀

Once Upon a Time: Joanna Garcia-Swisher Cast as Ariel in Season 3-TVLine

According to TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich, Joanna Garcia-Swisher has been cast as Ariel and will be guest-starring in at least two episodes of Once Upon a Time's upcoming third season. Here's an excerpt from the article, which gives some details on Swisher's role:

An ABC rep confirms for TVLine that the Reba/Privileged alum will play the mermaid with moxie in at least two episodes, starting with the sixth installment of Season 3. TV Guide Magazine first reported on the casting.

Although Ariel’s appearance on the show — and often with Swisher’s name loosely attached — has been rumored since Season 1, the character’s Season 3 debut was confirmed at last month’s Comic-Con, in a teaser reel that showed a mysterious being sneaking up on a dwarf, stealing the fork (!) out of his lunchbox and vanishing into the ocean. Then, with the flick of a glistening fin, the redhead revealed herself and swam away.

Yet despite the context of the teaser (a la the previous Comic-Con’s misleading glimpse of Captain Hook), Ariel will not surface in Storybrooke but in another realm.

Link to the full article:‘Once Upon a Time’ Season 3 Cast — Joanna Garcia Swisher As Ariel - TVLine



My thoughts: First off, I'd like to apologize for not posting this sooner. I had been meaning to post this news the day that it was announced, but I had company over that day, and I kept putting off posting it until now. That being said, I've been a huge fan of Joanna's ever since she was on Reba and I think she's a very talented actress, so I'm very confident that she'll do a great job playing Ariel. I always thought that Joanna was very attractive back when she had blonde hair, but I definitely think she looks even better now with red hair, so I'm personally glad that she has continued to wear her hair red, even after Privileged was canceled. Based on how she looks with red hair, I think Joanna is the perfect fit for the role of Ariel. As weird as this may sound, I think she definitely resembles Ariel from the Disney movie. That being said, this really is exciting casting news and I can't wait to see how she fits into the show next season, especially with a large chunk of the main characters going to Neverland in search of Henry. I'm definitely very excited for season 3 of Once Upon a Time.

New Girl: Watch out, everybody! Jess’ new guy is a total nutcase (My thoughts on episode 2x18 “TinFinity”)

In a TV season where quite a few of my favorite TV shows are suffering from a creative slump, it’s nice to see New Girl be on such a creative roll this season. New Girl has especially been on a roll creatively ever since Jess and Nick kissed in episode 2x15 “Cooler”, and the writers’ creative streak continues in this episode.

Schmidt was planning a party to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Nick and him being roommates. Schmidt referred to their anniversary as their “tin anniversary”, and after Jess pointed out that the chemical symbol for tin is Sn Schmidt declared that the theme of the party would be “TinFinity”. This episode once again showcased just how weird Schmidt and Nick’s friendship really is, and I thought that the episode “Models” made their friendship seem as strange as the writers possibly could when Schmidt bought Nick a cookie and Nick spent the whole episode trying to figure out the meaning behind the cookie.

The character Schmidt has already pretty much completely played out and almost all of the novelty of the character has worn off for me, so I don’t find his antics all that funny anymore, especially in this episode. Nick and his behavior in this episode is what made that storyline so funny to me, especially when it comes to the whole thing with Nick buying an old Porta-Potty and was really excited about it after Nick put him in charge of getting Porta-Potties and balloons for the party.

Personally, I thought it was pretty risky of the writers to have Jess and Nick kiss each other so early in the show’s run, but I have to say that I think it has really paid off for the writers to take that risk. The aftermath of Jess and Nick’s kiss has led to some really great material on the show, and this episode is definitely a very good example of their kiss providing some great material between Jess and Nick. Jess told Cece that she hasn’t been able to stop thinking about the kiss that she shared with Nick. She also told Cece about the fact that she kissed Schmidt in the previous episode (“Parking Spot”). I loved Cece reaction to Jess telling her that she and Schmidt had kissed. What made that scene even better in my opinion was when Nick came in the room and was acting really weird, asking Jess if he had anything on his mouth after he ate a cupcake and got frosting on his mouth. That moment was perfectly timed given the fact that Jess was in the middle of telling Cece about how she hasn’t been able to stop thinking about having “Nick’s mouth on her mouth” as she put it.

Cece suggested that Jess find a new boyfriend, saying that dating Shivrang had helped her get over Schmidt, so Jess decided to go try and meet a guy at the bar where Nick works, which led to a sequence of Jess talking to guys that were all extremely weird in their own way. Things took a turn for the better when Winston showed up with a football player named Jax, which he had interviewed for his job at the radio station. Jess immediately decided to talk to him. Winston was adamantly against the idea of Jess dating Jax, so he spent most of the episode trying to come between them, because he was determined to be best friends with him. Most of his attempts to come between them only backfired on him, making Jax think that he was weird.

New Girl: Steve Howey Cast as a Love Interest For Jess-TVLine

According to TVLine's Michael Ausiello, Steve Howey has been cast as a love interest for Jess in an upcoming episode of New Girl. Here's an excerpt from the article, which gives some details on Howey's role:

Howey has been tapped to guest star as Jax McTavish, an intense (in every sense of the word) professional football player that Winston interviews.

The jock is later invited to Schmidt and Nick’s “Tinfinity” party — a.k.a. a bash celebrating their 10 years of living together — and it’s there that he crosses paths with (and catches the eye of) Jess.

The $1 million question: Is Jess’ current beau, Sam, also in attendance? And if not, where the hell is he?!

Link to the full article:‘New Girl’ Season 2 Spoilers — Steve Howey as Love Interest For Jess - TVLine



My thoughts: I have to say that I have extremely mixed feelings about this news. On the one hand, I've been a huge fan of Steve Howey ever since he was on Reba, and I love him on Shameless. Steve is a great comedic actor, so I'm sure that he'll do a great job on New Girl. On the other hand, a part of me wishes that the producers would stop bringing in new love interests for Jess and just have Jess and Nick get together for a while at this point. I realize that this is a TV show though and the writers have to draw out the progression of Jess and Nick's relationship, so they can't have them get together too soon, especially since this is only the second season of New Girl. Although, I've read a lot of spoilers and I've watched a lot of interviews that Zooey Deschanel and Jake Johnson have done recently, which seem to indicate that there's some major developments coming up later this season in terms of the progression of Jess and Nick's relationship and the possibility of them becoming a couple, which I'm definitely very excited about.

There's a part of me that's also okay with Jess and Nick not getting together for awhile since I've really been enjoying the relationship between Jess and Sam lately. Reading this news has definitely made me wonder about the future of their relationship though. While my feelings about Jess getting a new love interest are very mixed after reading this, I'm going to try and keep an open mind about this casting news since I'm such a huge fan of Steve Howey.

On a somewhat shallow note, I've pretty much always thought that Steve Howey was really hot, but I'm definitely not a fan of his most recent haircut/hairstyle and I don't care for his facial hair either. The way his hair looks these days and the facial hair aren't doing him any favors in the looks department. His current haircut and the facial hair really make him look rather creepy and gross, in my opinion, which is a shame, because I always thought that he was extremely attractive before he started wearing his hair like that and started sporting that hideous beard for the past several years.